Archive for November, 2010

A century of comet data suggests a dark, Jupiter-sized object is lurking at the solar system’s outer edge and hurling chunks of ice and dust toward Earth. “We’ve accumulated 10 years’ more data, double the comets we viewed to test this hypothesis,” said planetary scientist John Matese of the University of Louisiana. “Only now should […]

So, on our recent Thanksgiving trip, our 2003 Audi A4 Quattro turbo 1.8L heater just stopped blowing hot air. It still blows air, and it will blow warm air for maybe five seconds when you first turn it on, but then it blows cold air after that. Was real nice on our 8.5 hour drive […]

Why do I still suck at playing guitar? I can play tons of chords. I can finger notes clearly. I can handle many songs in the songbooks I have, but only in terms of playing the chords. I got no rhythm. I got no soul. I got no spark. I got no jones. Put a […]

So one of the things we did over the Thanksgiving break was to go watch the new Disney movie “Tangled.” “Tangled” is a revised version of the “Rapunzel” fairy tale, the one where the girl lives in a tower that can only be reached by her lowering her impossibly long blonde hair out the window […]

I’ve avoided commenting on the WikiLeaks affair so far for a couple of reasons. One was that I wanted to see what Obama would do about it proactively, the other was that assuming Obama did nothing (which is what I expected) how damaging was the actual information? Well, it’s clear that this is very damaging. […]

I hate to say it, but right now I would say that Josh McDaniels has lost his team and at least part of his coaching staff. Somebody leaked information from McDaniels’ private coaching meeting last week where he talked about the illegal taping of the 49ers practice session in London. And that means someone on […]

One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants, union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused by the state’s health department and new national health-insurance requirements. via 1199SEIU to Drop Health Coverage for Workers’ Children – […]

Well, I am forced to concede that Jay Cutler has found his groove in Chicago. I fully expected Philadelphia to expose Cutler and the Bears and exactly the reverse happened. Cutler’s 4 TD day was downright brilliant. I’ll keep an eye on things, but right now I have to give the man credit.